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How to survive as a European manufacturer in the modern globalized world? How to survive if your competition is in China producing thousands of items and paying very little salaries and not caring too much for the environment? Is there any chance for the expensive and highly taxed Europeans? According to Scarfmaker there is! The [...]

One of the key sources of innovation is the collaboration of different disciplines. For example when biology and physics met the science of biophysics was created. The introduction of IT has brought many benefits in many different industry sectors. Primefish Solutions is an Estonian startup that unites the knowledge from fish-breeding (aquaculture) and IT. Introducing [...]

Listhings.com – a virtual “post-it service”, that was launched in April 2009, hosts more than 100 000 sticky-notes by more than 1000 users. The service is a masterpiece of usability and design. It is minimalistic with little functionality and no unnecessary bells and whistles. Everything you need is there. You never get the feeling of being [...]

                          Estonian based startup Propaganda LLC has recently released to the public a web-based social media utility WhosRich. WhosRich makes it fun and easy for people to track their friends’ shopping habits. The utility gives eager shoppers a scene to exhibit publicly their [...]

How to find foreign customers for corporate IT solutions? CEO of Terabill, Teet Lõhmus shares his experience. Terabill offers a billing solution for telecoms with a software service model. Billing, the core IT system of every telecom company, gathers information about telephone calls from the telephone stations, calculates how much each customer must pay according [...]

The world of IT system integration is overloaded with acronyms and geeky terminology. Moreover, combinations of terms such as XML, SOA, orchestration, BPM, and ontology might create an impression of ongoing R&D efforts. But this is not entirely true. The previously mentioned keywords refer actually to model-driven integration. There is no doubt that IT system [...]

Soon everyone can exchange good deeds in the Õnnepank – world’s first e-Bank of Happiness. The goal of the bank is to promote the idea of doing good deeds …for free. Bringing together those who are in need of help and those who can help. In the e-bank one can exchange information on needs, offer [...]

Estonian GPS solutions provider Track24.eu will take a step towards total truck fleet management by adding two way communication to its GPS terminal solution. There are numerous ways how modern technology can help logistics, road construction and other companies dealing with cars, trucks and heavy machinery. Track24.eu is one of the leading Estonian GPS solution [...]

From September the Association of Estonian E-commerce will start giving out quality marks for trustworthy e-shops. According to Sirja Mäekivi, head of the association, the goal of the quality mark is to certify e-shops and build trust between the shops and consumers. The quality mark will show that the shop is not failing its customers, the owners [...]

Ordinary geographic maps are static: there are dots and lines, rivers, borders and roads, but no people, no cars, no bicycles, nor their movement.  Thanks to technology being created at Positium LBS this is about to change. Estonian undertaking Positium uses data from different positioning systems, puts them on the map and analyses it. Thus creating maps that describe [...]




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